Wooster police looking for robbery suspect

WOOSTER -- Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred early Monday and are searching for the unknown male who fled from the scene on foot.

Anthony Lemmon, a detective with the Wooster Police Department, said police were called to a hotel on the 700 block of East Milltown Road at about 1:20 a.m.

The suspect is roughly 5 feet, 7 inches tall and has an unspecified age. He was wearing a red baseball cap, a red hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes.

A female employee who was visibly upset told police a white man rang the exterior door bell at the hotel who claimed he wanted to rent a room. The woman let him inside and he followed her into the establishment.

But he then pointed a handgun to her head and ordered her to open up the cash drawer into a bag. Once he had the money, the man reportedly ordered the woman onto the floor in a back room.

When she tried to look up at him, the woman told police he began to hit her with an unknown object. She was not seriously injured. The woman refused a transport and had some scratches and scrapes on her.

Officers were unable to locate the man, who fled the area heading north on Milltown Road with an undetermined amount of cash.

Police are investigating the case, Lemmon said, including video footage from the area.

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